Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1 Christine Gerrard
Part I Contexts and Perspectives 5
1 Poetry, Politics, and the Rise of Party 7 Christine Gerrard
2 Poetry, Politics, and Empire 23 Suvir Kaul
3 Poetry and Science 38 Clark Lawlor
4 Poetry and Religion 53 Emma Mason
5 Poetic Enthusiasm 69 John D. Morillo
6 Poetry and the Visual Arts 83 Robert Jones
7 Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace 97 George Justice
8 Women Poets and Their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain 111 Charlotte Grant
9 Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility 127 Jennifer Keith
Part II Readings 143
10 John Gay, The Shepherd’s Week 145 Mina Gorji
11 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and “Eloisa to Abelard” 157 Valerie Rumbold
12 Jonathan Swift, the “Stella” Poems 170 Ros Ballaster
13 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems 184 Isobel Grundy
14 James Thomson, The Seasons 197 Christine Gerrard
15 Stephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 209 John Goodridge
16 Mary Leapor, “Crumble-Hall” 223 David Fairer
17 Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination 237 Adam Rounce
18 Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 252 David F. Venturo
19 William Collins, “Ode on the Poetical Character” 265 John Sitter
20 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 277 Suvir Kaul
21 Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno 290 Chris Mounsey
22 Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village 303
Caryn Chaden
23 William Cowper, The Task 316 Freya Johnston
24 Robert Burns, “Tam o’ Shanter” 329 Murray Pittock
Part III Forms and Genres 339
25 Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse 341 Richard Bradford
26 Epic and Mock-Heroic 356 Richard Terry
27 Verse Satire 369 Brean Hammond
28 The Ode 386 Margaret M. Koehler
29 The Georgic 403 Juan Christian Pellicer
30 The Verse Epistle 417 Bill Overton
Part IV Themes and Debates 429
31 The Constructions of Femininity 431 Kathryn R. King
32 Whig and Tory Poetics 444 Abigail Williams
33 The Classical Inheritance 458 David Hopkins
34 Augustanism and Pre-Romanticism 473 Thomas Woodman
35 Recovering the Past: Shakespeare, Spenser, and British Poetic Tradition 486 Carolyn D. Williams
36 The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination 500 Paul Baines
37 The Sublime 515 Shaun Irlam
38 Poetry and the City 534 Markman Ellis
39 Cartography and the Poetry of Place 549 Rachel Crawford
40 Rural Poetry and the Self-Taught Tradition 563 Bridget Keegan
41 Poetry Beyond the English Borders 577 Gerard Carruthers
Index 590